We all know Google Adsense is one of the best recurring monetization network for any blog or website. I started blogging in 2008, and implemented Adsense on ShoutMeLoud in 2009. If you have read my earlier article on how I make money with ShoutMeLoud, you would know, I never focused on Adsense as my main source of online income. I have earned more with Affiliate marketing, services, and till the date: Adsense is just a small part of my online income.
It’s 2013 now, and I wanted to share my Adsense earning report for last 4 years. I believe, this will be helpful for many to figure out, if they can actually rely on Adsense for their online income or not. Before I share my Adsense earnings report, do remember:
- This report includes all the blogs in my network.
- ShoutMeLoud is an adsense revenue sharing blog.
- Here at ShoutMeLoud, I run only one Adsense ad spot.
4 Year Adsense earnings
If you are new to Adsense, you can refer to Adsense guide, and learn how to create an Adsense account. My AdSense journey started from January 2009, but my first payment reached on my door-step in the first week of May 2009. It was $179.77, and honestly I can’t share the joy I had when I was holding my first Adsense cheque.
I’m sharing Adsense income for every year from 2009-2012: (My calculation is little poor, so keep that in mind 
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- 2009 – $1860.05
- 2010 – $7235.44
- 2011 – $10771.13
- 2012 – $6884.83
I missed the calculation, as when I used Adsense all time report, in 4 years I have earned $27,228 Approx. As you all know, Google sends us Adsense cheque in INR, and conversion rate varies every month. Here I’m taking $1=46 INR as an average conversion rate, total Adsense earnings for 4 years in INR would be: 1,252,488 INR.
You can click on above image to see the full-view. If you would notice in product column: “Hosted Adsense for content” made $385.06. This is not much, but again this comes from Adsense youtube partnership. I also earn from Adsense ads running on youtube videos on my YouTube channel.
To be honest, my one year affiliate income report for an individual network is much better than 4 year combined earning from AdSense, but as I always say: Adsense gives us peace of mind. When you are earning online, recurring income is the first thing that one should target. Once you are in your comfort zone of earning, you can always try, and implement new methodology to earn from your blog. When it comes to contextual advertising, there are many Adsense alternatives out there. But, the kind of quality of ads, timely payments, you get with Google Adsense, you will not get it from anywhere else.
Can you rely on Adsense income for full-time job:
The reason I’m sharing my 4 years Adsense earning with you is to give you an idea of how much a blogger can earn from Adsense. As I told you, Adsense adds only to 20% of my total income, and I know many bloggers who are making more than 3-4 lack with Adsense on tech blogs. If I consider, salary of an average software engineer in India, I find Adsense earnings to be more tempting than salary. The only down side of relying only on Adsense for income is, if your account get banned at any point of time, you will be hunting for best suitable alternative, which is a task.
If you are one of those who is planning to start a blog, and earn from Adsense. My advice would be: don’t put all your eggs in one basket. If you are planning to take blogging as a career option, a good idea is to have multiple source of income. You can have multiple blogs, or you can use different monetization methods like: Intext Ads (Infolinks), CPM ads, Affiliate marketing (Webhosting affiliate, Viglink), Sell your own product, and many more.
So that sums up my 4 years of Adsense journey, and I will keep sharing what ever I will learn in my blogging journey. Also, I would love to know how much on an average you earn from Adsense in an year? Would you recommend anyone to consider Blogging as a full-time career, by relying on Adsense earnings only?
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Hi Harsh
However I never took it that seriously because of lack of knowledge @ that time I guess. At present, I have three blogs and I do receive check several times in an year. I believe that income via Adsense is good alternative source of income however trusting it blindly as main source of income involves risks. I take it as my alternative, less reliable source of income 
Thanks for sharing this info.
Like you, even I started my blogging journey in 2008 when my joining in Accenture was delayed
This figures are really motivated
one yr ago I had http://www.placementmantra.com which earned me around 1000 usd in 1 yr ,but later I focused on other things and lost revenue
but sure after seeing ur post will again focus on blogging
That’s a good earning amount as an professional blogger, I wounder how much more you would have earned if you had just filled you blog with adsense ads.
@Mahendra
Honestly, I don’t think I would have earned the same amount which I’m earning with Affiliate marketing. I’m planning to post affiliate income report of one program which I’m using, and you could compare the difference from it.
Wow 30% Decreased in 2012? Why So?
BTW Yeah really we should not depends on one source on income, Affiliate is best of passive income.
@Amit
After Panda hit ShoutMeLoud..I stopped focusing on few blogs.. CallingAllGeeks, which was making great from Adsense, it went down due to lack of attention. That’s one reason for low Adsense earning in 2012.
I have a confession. But hopefully you won’t stop accepting guest posts from me.
People need to first buy a english book and practice learning “How to write quality content”. For Example in our country I encounter many freelancers dying to write for 500-600 words and they make decent income. A few days back I wrote an article called 5 Web Design companies to hire in 2013 out here.
You guys know how much I got for posting this in Shout Me Loud. Any Guesses? 150 USD for a single post. And the company who paid me has alexa ranking below 200.
No more clue. Only thing I can say to all of you is concentrate on quality.
BTW Harsh thanks for that inspiring post.
It is Mind Blowing stats as you are saying this is Just 20% of your Whole Income.
Simply MOTIVATING !!
Hello Harsh.
Always nice to read such data with income reports.And very well said running multiple blogs, not depending upon adsense as the main source of income is very necessary.
I learned this when my blog got hit by first panda updates. Since then it became difficult for me to move on as i was new to blogging back then. But its wise to always have a plan B and i have learned and implemented this.
Thanks for the article.
SML Earning Report is always motivates me . Thanks For sharing your adsense earning but please also post your all time money from all the sources
Great Bro…!! It’s awesone
Coz rate in PK of $ is 100 rs :/.
And you know if you were in Pakistan, this earning would be multiplied by 2
Great going dude, it shows your blog capability of generating recurring income.
Adsense is the earning method for newcomers, as one of the widely available earning network
Once they are into the race they try diff methods
Blogging is a sure shot career option that is readily available for people who have interest and knowledge of writing and sharing things with audience..
Hello Mr Agarwal,
Jsut like you since 2008,I am also a wannabe on the internet .I have a website but again it has gone into darkness. Since then my interest was demoilsed.But somehow after going through shout me loud ,I am inspired again to follow my dreams and make a new beginning. I am very much interested into the paid consultancy part.Pls get in touch with me on my mail.I will be highly obliged to you for the same. Thanks & Regards,
Nice Adsense earning report. I wonder if you would have putted your all adsense ad unit on your blog.
Hello Harsh. Thanks and Congratulations.
But my adsense account was blocked so i moved on to yahoo ads network. Still i want to move back to adsense. Any tip to do that?
great article harsh…no i would definitely not recommend relying on adsense earnings only…like they say ‘always have a backup plan!’ lol…since you are doing blogging as a full time career, your earnings are more than awesome…best of luck bro
Congratulations harsh. I was wondering how much a software engineer would be making after 4 years?
If I understand correctly, there is more money in content adsense than youtube for the same effort?
@Aditya
True..Adsense on content blog works better…but it require more work in term of promotion and other factor.. Where as Youtube is a ready made platform, and promotion is easy because of millions of active users….
Hi Harsh, I was wondering how much of your earnings is a profit? I somehow believe that those who earn a lot on Adsense also spend quite a lot on advertising (with a few exceptions). Many pro-bloggers have us believe that 100% of these earnings are actually a profit so that’s quite misleading. But it would be interesting to know if you’d be willing to share, at least to give other bloggers here an idea – the percentage profit of your Adsense earnings. Thanks, you are an inspiration.
Hey Sabz
This is almost 100% earning as we blogger usually don’t spend on PPC campaign …. Though running cost be counted in term of Webhosting ..which is not much …
Motivational. But of no use until they really approve my adsense application. Resubmitted for 23rd time today!
Hi Harsh,
This is really nice achievement as a blogger, as you know very well that, now your blog is one of the popular tech blog. As all kind of information related to technology are available on your blog. I have seen lots of blogs and bloggers, but you are unique and active blogger out of all other bloggers.
This is just because of your hard work and dedication to your blog. You love your blog and take care of your blog. This is the reason, it works best for you.
what are other ads network that provide image and animated ads like adsense.I am currently using infolinks.Can you suggest me some other good ad networks.